Anil Seth
Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than 20 years. He is the author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.

“Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain,” writes neuroscientist Anil Seth.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.